On the first day of the new academic year in Iran, the Resistance’s President-elect called on Iranian students to support the National Liberation Army of Iran and spread the Resistance and uprisings against the mullahs' regime in every school and university in towns and cities across the country.

Addressing Iran’s 25 million school and university students, teachers, professors and others employed in the education sector, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi said that the ruling mullahs were terrified by the potentially explosive fury and frustration felt by the vast majority of the young generation and said: "The mullahs have been issuing warnings to each other especially for the past two months, fearing a repeat of the July uprisings and already calling future uprisings 'Project Riots II'."
 
 

Fearing Further Uprisings, Regime’s Leaders Try to Appease Students, Agence France Presse, September 22

TEHRAN - Some two million Iranian students return Thursday to universities which have been freshly refurbished after an outpouring of violence in July left dormitories trashed and at least three people dead.

On the same day, 19 million schoolchildren return to class in this country where more 20 percent of the population are aged under 20.

Mohammad Khatami has constantly extolled the virtues of the role of young people in the country and the "indispensable dialogue" with them.

On Monday the supreme leader Ali Khamenei praised the students as a "source of inspiration" during an address in the western provincial capital of Tabriz, also hard hit by the July disturbances.

"The political knowledge of the students prevents them falling into the traps of those seeking power and from being manipulated by different political groups," he said

But he added that the "instigators of the troubles" had acted on "vicious motives."

In the Tehran university campus in the Amirabad district, where the student movement was born on July 8 the atmosphere is fraught with political uncertainty.

Four people accused of being the main instigators of the student unrest were sentenced to death last week in a closed-door session of the Tehran Revolutionary Tribunal.
 
 

Tehran Slams "Foreign" Troops in Gulf, Agence France Presse, September 22

TEHRAN - Mohammad Khatami slammed the "foreign" military presence in the Gulf Wednesday as Iran commemorated its eight-year war with Iraq.

Commanders paraded an array of military hardware including two new surface-to-surface missiles.

"We not only do not need a foreign presence to establish security in the region, but consider it the root cause of disputes and confrontations," Khatami said in his address.

"Foreigners do not seek the security of regional countries, and this very imposed war and others in various corners of the world are the result of the illegitimate presence of big powers," Khatami said in a clear reference to US and British bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Commanders displayed two new surface-to-surface missiles -- the Zaylzal and the Shahab-3 -- to the sound of martial music played by a military band.
 
 

From the Mullahs’ Press, Reuters, September 23

KAYHAN - Ayatollah Hossein Nouri-Hamedani blasted a play published in a student magazine for allegedly insulting a Shiite Moslem imam. "We see it our duty to loudly express anger about this because we believe that the situation would get worse and no respect would remain for Islamic sanctities if we keep quiet," the senior cleric said in a strongly worded statement.

AKHBAR-E EQTESAD - More than 1,200 foreign tourists cancelled planned trips to Iran this summer because of the recent kidnappings and the harassment of tourists by vigilantes in the city of Isfahan, a tourism official said.

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